‘Back-to-back tragedies’: Woman who lost her mother and daughter in drug-fueled murder-suicide dies in car accident

Stephanie Croteau

Stephanie Croteau died Friday in a single-car crash in Springfield, Massachusetts. Nearly two months ago, her mother and 10-year-old daughter were killed and 12-year-old daughter was injured in a murder-suicide perpetrated by a neighbor. (Stephanie Croteau’s Facebook page)

An awful situation became even more tragic when a Massachusetts woman whose mother and 10-year-old daughter were killed, and another daughter, 12, injured in a vicious murder-suicide in August has now died in a single-car accident.

Stephanie Croteau died in the crash just after midnight on Friday in Springfield, according to police. No other details of the crash have been released.

“There are no words to express what the Croteau family must be going through. Our heartfelt thoughts, prayers, sympathy and words of encouragement go out to the family, especially to the children,” Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said in a statement. “It’s just unbelievable that the family is beset with back-to-back tragedies.”

On Aug. 14, Victor Nieves barged into his downstairs neighbor’s home in Springfield and opened fire, the Hampden District Attorney’s Office said. He struck Croteau’s mother Kim Fairbanks, 52, who along with the family dog was pronounced dead on the scene. He then went to a bedroom where he shot Fairbanks’ granddaughters ages 12 and 10. Her 5-year-old grandson was physically unharmed.

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